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G.-A. WEBER. COMBINED FISH PLATE AND CHAIR FOR RAILWAYS.

No. 427,452. Patented May 6, 1890).

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M I I 1 L l f I I I UNITED STATES PAIENT OFFICE:

GEORGE A. WEBER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CAROLINE O. WVEBER, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED FISH-PLATE AND CHAIR FOR RAILWAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,452, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filedMay 15, 1889. Serial No. 310,792. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:'

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. II EBER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Fish'Plates and Chairs for Railways, of which the following is a full, true, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement upon the forms of joint hitherto patented to me April 30, 1889, Nos. 402,371 and 402,37 2. By this improvement I am enabled to make my improved fish-plate and chair of less weight and more compact than in the form hitherto patented to me.

My invention will be readily understood from the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a cross-section through my chair and fish-plate in posit-ion, and Fig. 2 a plan view of the chair, which is sometimes called a shoe.

A represents the rail, which may be of any form. The chair itself is shown at B, and is made, as shown, of a width between the vertical. portions adapted to fit exactly the width of the flan ge of the rail. The fish-plate blocks 0 and D are held against the sides of the rail by bolts E in the same manner as in my previous patents; but the plate or block D differs from the one in my previous patents in that it is cut away at the upper part, so as to remove the bearing-surface shown in the previous patents. The upper surface is by preference, though not essentially, cut at an angle, so as to drain away from the rail. The block D is likewise by preference provided with packing G, as indicated in my Patent No. 402,37 2. Under some circumstances I do not make my chair exactly of the width of the flange of the rail, but in this case provide a downwardly-extending portion of the block D, as indicated in my Patent No. 402,371; but in this case I arrange that the width of the rail and of the doWnwardly-proj ectin g portion of the block D shall exactly fill the space within the chair. The chair itself is prevented from longitudinal motion or creeping by slots or openings K K (one or more) adapted to receive the head of a spike or bolt driven or attached to a tie. These slots are by preference cut in the upturned shorter flange of the chair, as indicated. I in this way reduce the weight and obviate the necessity of the projecting jaws or lugs shown in my previous applications. It is to be observed, moreover, that the chair or part B consists of a plate of metal of substantially uniform thickness, which is turned upward at the corners into two substantiallyparallel plates or portions. The outer planes of these turnedup portions do not fall within any projecting portion of the chair B. By this structure the part Bean be readily rolled or bent into shape, and I utilize the upper surface of the shorter lip, as shown at K, to receive the bolt-head, not requiring an extra projection at that side in order to hold down the chair. gard as an important part of my invention, enabling me to manufacture my chairs rapidly and cheaply, and at the same time providing a receptacle for the bolt-head in the body of the chair itself, rather than in some projecting portion thereof, which might be readily broken, and which would in any event require an extra weight of mctal,which I avoid by my present structure.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A chair for railroad-rails, consisting of a flat bottom portion corresponding with the bottom of the flange of the rail, and two upturned sides, one of greater height than the other, the said upturned sides being substantially at right angles to the bottom, and no part of the chair projecting laterally beyond the exterior surfaccs of these upwardly-proj ecting portions, the shorter of said sides being slotted for the reception of a belt or nail head or heads, substantially as described.

2. A chair for railroad-rails, consisting of a flat bottom portion corresponding in width with the bottom of the flange of the rail, and two upturned sides,one of-greater height than the other, the said upturned sides being substantially at right angles to the bottom, and no part of the chair projecting laterally beyond the exterior surfaces of these upwardly-pro jecting portions, the higher of said sides being provided with a bolt hole or holes for attachin g said chair to the rail, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a rail A, chair B,

This I re of equal width with the flange of the rail, the fish plates or blocks 0 D, the block D being cut away below'the surface of the rail and provided with elastic filling G, and the bolt E, passing through the blocks 0 D and the chair B, substantially as described.

4. A chair for railroad-rails, consisting of a flat bottom portion corresponding with the bottom of the flange of the rail, and two upturned sides, one of greater height than the other, the said upturned sides being substantially at right angles to the bottom, and no part of the chair projecting laterally beyond the exterior surfaces of these upwardly-projecting portions, the shorter of said sides being slotted on its upper edge for the reception of a bolt or nail head or heads, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. A. WEBER. \Vitnesses:

I-I. COUTANT, ANTHONY GREF. 

